Chapters 7 through 9 Summary

In chapter seven, Leif had found one of the places on earth that "can never truly be lost" when he found his forest. Another is the Twin Towers. Allie, Nick, and Leif approach the Twin Towers to find there are dozens of "Afterlight kids" playing games on the plaza. They are greeted by several children, including a girl throwing a jump rope who doesn't stop her activity as she talks to them. A girl dressed in tie-dye and bell-bottoms offers to take them to Mary. Meadow tells the three they are to make a wish by tossing a coin into the fountain, a requirement of every Greensoul who arrives. Allie says she doesn't have a coin but Meadow insists she look and Allie finds one in her back pocket. She tosses it in and, like many, wishes she were alive.

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